I still dont believe that things will happen exactly like they say or like this synopsis says, and i doubt a lot that this will be a thing or trying to find other people, bc JMo and Gosh decided to leave, but the others didnt, so that means that they could still have kept Bex and Emilie as recurring and even Jared( henry flashbacks), but yet, they decided that they didnt needed them, like they decided that they didnt needed SB, if was a case of trying to find the other 3 characters they could still do Hnery, curse and SB, but having the other 3 characters missing.
They are known to lie and when they dont even know what they will do with 100% sure, the chance of things not going like they say now, means the chance of not being like they say will be increases a lot, i mean they said in an article before the season finale that they would not add more family members, which they did, not to mention that once again the synopsis says that a great danger bigger than all the others, i mean they said Black fairy was the ultimate villain and she ended not being that big villain, you cannot go to a final battle and not have casualities, not to mention the buzz they did about jasmine, AlaDDin and jafar and then PUFFF, nothing came from that, so unless they say that some characters died and before people say, that kills hope, it doesnt disney kills parents in all their movies and no one complained about it, is life, people die, i dont think these characters are the SB ones, which in a way goes with their words of SB still exi sting, if these arent the SB ones means that everything is still happened in SB and nothing chnaged from there, life still went on, there is another Hnery in SB having Regina as mom, etc, they may say there are alternative universes of the same characters( like Flash).
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